Pen-holder



E. FABER.

PEN HOLDER (No Model.)

Noe 426,119. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EBERIIARD FABER, OF LIVINGSTON, NEV YORK.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,119, dated April 22, 1890.

Application led February 17, 1890. Serial No. 340,673. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBERHARD FABER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Livingston, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pen-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Guards have been made for pen-holders in the form of projecting polygonal flanges of sheet metal around the metallic tube that holds the pen, and the guard has served to prevent the pen-holder rolling When laid upon the desk or table, and in some instances a polygonal flange has been made of rubber projecting from a rubber tube drawn over the penholder. This has served to prevent the fingers coming into contact with the ink, and also to prevent the holder rolling.

My improvement relates to a tubular rubber guard having' a small bead proj ecting around one end, so that the tube can be rolled more or less upon itself to form a larger or smaller guard for the fingers to keep them from contact with the ink, and also rto form an annular cushion against which the fingers can rest, which cushion can be rolled along on the holder nearer to or farther from the pen, as may be desired, for the convenience of the person using the same; and this rubber guard raises the pen more or less from the desk when the same is laid down.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a pen-holder with my improved guard. Fig. 2 is a section, in larger size, of t-he guard and peirholder, the dotted lines showing differis a cross-section at the line c o: of Fig. 2.

The pen A and pen holder or handle B are of any desired character.

My improved guard C is a comparatively thin tube of soft rubber with a small bead 2 around one end thereof. This tubular guard is sufficiently elastic to be stretched more or less and drawn. over the penholder so that the end bead 2 isat the proper or desired distance from the pen, and this tubular guard is made so that the end of the tube can be rolled upon itself into an elastic ring-guard of greater or less diameter. To do this, it is only necessary to push endwise of the tubular guard and against the small end bead 2, and

this bead is stretched over and its surface rolls along upon the outside of the tubular portion of the guard, and the tube is distended upon and rolled around the bead.

In Fig. 2 the dotted lines at 3 show the tubular rubber guard laid out its full length, and the dotted lines at 4. show the elastic ring-guard as rolled into about the usual size required, and the full lines at 5 represent the ring of the guard as rolled until it is still larger.

If desired, there may be small teats or studs at G punched up in the sheet metal of the holder or handle, against Which thc elastic guard-ring may rest to prevent the same unrolling by the action of the fingers in grasping the pen.

I claim as my invention- 1. The guard for a pen-holder, formed of a tube of soft rubber adapted to be drawn over the pen-holder and having a small bead at one end, so that the tube can be rolled up around the holder into an elastic guard-ring of larger or smaller size, substantially as set forth.

2. The pen-holder having a tub ular rubber guard With a bead at the end capable of being rolled up larger or smaller and against which the fingers press in grasping the penn holder, substantially as specified.

. Signed by me this 13th day of February, A. D. 1890.

EBERHARD FABER.

VitnesSGS:

L. W. FABER, En. E. IYIUBER. 

